PHIL 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Canadian Pharmacists Association, Health Canada, Pharmacology
6 May 2020
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Cps = compendium of pharmaceuticals and specialties. Contains: monographs for medications that are legally available via prescription in. Canada: information on: dosage and administration, contraindications, adverse effects, overdose, and pharmacology. Published annually by the canadian pharmacists association (cpha) Integrates: cps, ctc = compendium of therapeutic choices. There is no explicit therapeutic guide" in the digital version, but you can search for a drug by its therapeutic class. Contains an interactions checker" (lexi-interact: search for interactions between drugs, foods and natural products. Dpd = specific information on drugs approved for use in canada. Includes: human pharmaceutical and biological drugs, veterinary drugs, radiopharmaceutical drugs, disinfectant products. Includes products that are currently approved, marketed or cancelled. Information available includes: product name, din, company, drug status & date, class, active ingredient(s, strength, route(s) of administration, dosage forms(s, products monograph, schedule, therapeutic classification, active ingredient group.
